Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-09
OUR STATE POLITICS.
NOMINATION OF KEKBEEs OF TIE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Meeting Of the Republican State Com
mittee in Petersburg Tonight
General Malone.

| resolution that the State Central Com
mittee be authorized to adopt plan OF
county and city organization and to
provide for the immediate reorganiza-
tiop of the party in each city and coun-
ty OF the Commonwealth"
This Central or Executive Commit
tee is to be appointed by Mr.. Barbour
and is to be composed Of ten members,
ond it may be that one will he taken
from each congressional district
Whether the action with regard to
county and city committees will require
n reorganization OF the Richmond com
mittee does not clearly appear. Our
members were chosen at the beginning
of the last canvass to serve for two
years, as is usual here.
THE ELECTION.
At the election to be held in Novem-
Der Richmond will elect four membe
Of the House OF Delegates. Our pres
ent members are Messrs. Henry l..
Carter, James n. Dunlop, James ID.
Patton, and Ashton Starke. We do not
elect senators this fall-Messrs. Ellyson
and Lovenstein having been elected in
1886 for four years.
A senator is to he elected from the
Hanover and Caroline district. Gene
ral Williams G. Wickham is the present
incumbent. A senator is also to he
elected from the district composed Of
the city OF Manchester and counties OF
Chesterfield, Powhatan, and Goochland.
Peter G. Warwick, Esq, now holds the
position.
THEIR WORK.
The new Legislature will elect a
senator in the United States Congress,
all OF "the basement officers" and nu-
merous judges-among them Judge
Atkinss successor, in connection with
which Office the names of Messrs. James
Lyons, Jr., Samuel b. Witt, and David
&. Richardson are mentioned.
PRIMARY OR NOT.
Our City Committee will no doubt
proceed with great cautlousness in de-
tcrmining how our nominations shall
be made. If four popular men are
nominated the Democrats can carry the
city without very great difficulty.
1t will be question whether nomina-
tiOns should be made at n primary or
by convention, and, if by a conven-
ton, whether the members thereof
should be elected at ward meetings or
by primary.
The primary is the plan by which
our people have long been accustomed
to make their nominations, but the
last one--in May, 1SS6-resulted so
disastrously that the system docs not
enjoy the popularity it once possessed.
REPUBLICAN CoMsuTTEs.
The State Republican Committee
viii hold n meeting in Petersburg to-
night, when, it is understood, the ini-
tial steps of the campaign will be taken
by the leaders of that party.
1t is quite unlikely that a convention
Will be held-they do not usually hold
them when no nominations are to be
made-but it is pretty certain that
General Malone is determined to enter
the canvass, and that he will have the
active and Jealous support of Hon.
John S. Wise and many others OF those
who in former years have borne much
Of the burden of his campaigns.
The meeting tonight will determine
whether there shall be convention,
and if not, what steps the State Com
mittee should take to reOrganize their
county, city, and district committees.
General Malone expresses himself as
being reasonably certain of beating the
Democrats. which he hopes to do not
by depending upon State issues solely,
but by thrusting into the canvass hume
rous national matters. such as internal
revenue. the Blair bill. Cleveland's Ad-
ministrstion, &c.
Very able and thoughtful Republi-
cans have expressed it a. their opinion
that it will be well-nigh hopeless to er-
pect to carry the Senate, but they have
an idea that they can carry the House
by such numbers as will give them 4
clear majority on joint ballot.
THEY BEGIN TO ORGANIZE.
A meeting of the Republican voters
Of Madison Ward was held last night in
the Harris's Hall building. Hon John
S. Wise, chairman of the Republican
City Committee, was present and ad-
dressed the people, who were mostly
colored. Reporters were excluded, but
it is understood that the object of the
meeting was to reorganize the ward
club or committee for the campaign.
A similar meeting will be held in each
ward here.
This goes to show that Mr.. Wise has
thrown himself actively into the can
vass and that he means TO organize his
forces here thoroughly and systemati-
cally. Tonight he goes to Petersburg
TO attend the meeting of the Stats